Ray Larabie · President

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Russell McGorman
  • Re: Optimal Font Store?

    50% is too much for distributors that require the foundries to take most of the marketing into their own hands. I don't feel like any of the 50% distributors are putting nearly enough effort into mar…
  • Re: The future of type

    6 years? Time flies. I generated the following graphic using Latent Diffusion, a text-to-image model created by CompVis, trained on the LAION-400M dataset. I used various prompts, each containing the…
  • Re: Question about ITC Neon - possible revival?

    I think the reason it was never digitized is that it's too intricate. Stack, Good Vibrations, Process or Tonal were likely skipped for the same reason: too expensive. I say go for it. I considered do…
  • Type design hot takes

    What are your most unpopular opinions about type? I'll start with a few of my own hot takes. * I really hate small caps and I wish they would go away forever. I already have lowercase letters—I don't…
  • Re: Origin of desktop EULA language?

    @"James Bridges" Primarily any-size design firms and I don't feel ripped off. I experimented with EULAs in the 2000s but in the end, it was annoying for everyone—bothersome for me, irritati…
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